RE: Yerushala(y)im - or Biblical Hebrew

2003-07-22 Thread Jony Rosenne
It has been claimed that some errors were made in specifying the combining classes of some of the characters in the Hebrew Points and Punctuation section (U+05B0 to U+05C4) of the Hebrew block of the Unicode standard. Could someone please present a list of these errors. Jony

Re: Question about properties of some Code Points

2003-07-22 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 04:50 AM 7/22/03 +0200, Chris Jacobs wrote: Where am I going with this? Basically what I'm after is a clean/clear way to tell if quotation marks and parentheses (plus the other bracketing characters such as '[' or '{' are opening or closing punctuation. That's the real question here!

Code Pages!

2003-07-22 Thread rajesh
Dear Folks, Can anyone tell me, cope pages (cp values) of the Indian languages? if it is available on the net, where can I find it? with regards, Rajesh

Re: [OT] French Government Bans the Term 'E-Mail'

2003-07-22 Thread Doug Ewell
Pim Blokland pblokland at planet dot nl wrote: I'm not sure that even all English users appreciate the computer related jargon and acronyms that their geek developers want to force them to learn and use. Hm... Personally I feel just the opposite. I think the computer industry has taken too

Re: Yerushala(y)im - or Biblical Hebrew

2003-07-22 Thread Peter Kirk
On 21/07/2003 22:09, Jony Rosenne wrote: It has been claimed that some errors were made in specifying the combining classes of some of the characters in the Hebrew Points and Punctuation section (U+05B0 to U+05C4) of the Hebrew block of the Unicode standard. Could someone please present a list

Re: About the European MES-2 subset

2003-07-22 Thread jameskass
. Michael Everson wrote, I wasn't talking about that, but if you'd like my opinion, I hate that J too. Apathy, intolerance, bigotry, death, taxation, ignorance, oppression... Surely we can reserve our hatred for targets more worthy than a colleague's variant glyph preferences. Regards, James

Re: [OT] French Government Bans the Term 'E-Mail'

2003-07-22 Thread Michael Everson
At 11:41 +0100 2003-07-22, Marion Gunn wrote: I read that 'i' (in the Apple context) as meaning 'i(nternet ready)'. It is possible I could be wrong about that. Am I? Yes, you are. -- ME

Re: [OT] French Government Bans the Term 'E-Mail'

2003-07-22 Thread Marion Gunn
Scríobh Michael \(michka\) Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I always assumed the lowercase i was either meant to be something similar to devs but mean something like information to normal (i.e., non-developer) types. Then, like any concept is has to be [over]used everywhere. Maybe someone from Apple who

Re: Yerushala(y)im - or Biblical Hebrew

2003-07-22 Thread John Hudson
At 04:36 AM 7/22/2003, Peter Kirk wrote: These both explain the problem in some detail. They also propose alternative combining classes for the Hebrew vowels without actually proposing that the existing Unicode definitions should be changed. It should be noted that the alternative combining

Re: Yerushala(y)im - or Biblical Hebrew

2003-07-22 Thread Peter Kirk
On 22/07/2003 13:59, John Hudson wrote: At 04:36 AM 7/22/2003, Peter Kirk wrote: These both explain the problem in some detail. They also propose alternative combining classes for the Hebrew vowels without actually proposing that the existing Unicode definitions should be changed. It should

Re: Yerushala(y)im - or Biblical Hebrew

2003-07-22 Thread Rick McGowan
Peter Kirk wrote: And then if (and I know it's a big if) the UTC agrees in principle to allow a change to these combining classes, [...] This just isn't going to happen, so people should look elsewhere for solutions. I don't believe UTC could make such a decision and retain any sort of

Re: Yerushala(y)im - or Biblical Hebrew

2003-07-22 Thread John Hudson
At 06:00 PM 7/22/2003, Rick McGowan wrote: A solution with CGJ has been proposed, which is very general and can be applied to this and other such situations. I get the impression that CGJ support is not very high on the list of things going to be implemented any time soon by the application

Re: Yerushala(y)im - or Biblical Hebrew

2003-07-22 Thread John Hudson
At 02:44 PM 7/22/2003, Peter Kirk wrote: And then if (and I know it's a big if) the UTC agrees in principle to allow a change to these combining classes, would the custom values that you have listed there be suitable for a first draft proposal for new combining classes? I believe so. Eli

Re: Yerushala(y)im - or Biblical Hebrew

2003-07-22 Thread Philippe Verdy
On Wednesday, July 23, 2003 3:00 AM, Rick McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Kirk wrote: And then if (and I know it's a big if) the UTC agrees in principle to allow a change to these combining classes, [...] A solution with CGJ has been proposed, which is very general and can be